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  2 days ago

  Sloppy Use of Machine Learning Is Causing a ‘Reproducibility Crisis’ in Science

  ampproject.org - Will Knight

  History shows civil wars to be among the messiest, most horrifying of human affairs. So Princeton professor Arvind Narayanan and his PhD student …

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  Aatos Heikkinen

  

  3 days ago

  Oppo and OnePlus halt phone sales in Germany following Nokia lawsuit

  The Verge - James Vincent

  Chinese smartphone maker Oppo and its sub-brand OnePlus have halted sales of smartphones in Germany after losing a patent lawsuit with Nokia. Nokia has accused the companies of using its patented technology for processing 4G and 5G signals without paying for a license, reports European patent news …

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  Aatos Heikkinen

  

  Aug 4

  Amazon, IBM Move Swiftly on Post-Quantum Cryptographic Algorithms Selected by NIST

  darkreading.com - Jeffrey Schwartz, Contributing Writer

  A month after the algorithms were revealed, some companies have already begun incorporating the future standards into their products and services.

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  Aatos Heikkinen

  

  6 days ago

  Addressing fairness in artificial intelligence for medical imaging

  nature.com - Ricci Lara, María Agustina

  A plethora of work has shown that AI systems can systematically and unfairly be biased against certain populations in multiple scenarios. The field …

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  This Guy Sued a Spam Texter and Got $1,200 (and You Can Too)

  VICE Asia - Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai

  We spoke to two experts who have helped people demand damages to robocallers and spam texters. Like many of us, David Weekly regularly gets robocalls and spam text messages. Unlike the rest of us, he made $1200 by suing a company that sent him a spam text.. On June 20th, he got yet another annoying …

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  Elon Musk’s Babies Were Conceived Via IVF And Surrogacy - Is It The Future Of Reproduction?

  Forbes - Alex Zhavoronkov, PhD

  Musk Family Engineering Advances in science and technology, coupled with modern medicine, has impacted the way in which we look at life. Reproduction is not an exception. It is no secret that the most prolific innovator on the planet, Elon Musk, took an engineering approach to reproduction, and his …